St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-21
Abstracts Of the Sermons OF
Two Well-Known Mime
apolis Ministers.
A Dramatic Entertainment at
Saltwater for the Peni-
Tertiary Conviets.
Spicy Comment, Social and
Personal Gossip, Amuse-
ments and Routine.
THE GENTLE DOCTORS BOOM.
The New York World on His Pos
sibIe Vice Presidential Chances.

The New York World on His Pos
sibIe Vice Presidential Chances.
The Eastern press, with more or less
earnestneSs, or more or less amusement,
is ringing the changes on the possible
whirl of the political wheel that will
nominate (and. of course, elect Mayor
Ames as vice president onthe Cleveland
ticket. The latest is from the New
York World, as follows:
Ever since DR.. Albert AlOnZo Ames,
the widely-adyertised Democratic mayor
Of Minneapolis. made his remarkable
run for the governOrship last fall and
came so near turning the Republican
state of Minnesota into the Democratic
column. there has been talk of placing
Am es' name on the national ticket III
1888 as the candidate for vice president.
Their was little more than talk, how
ever. until the late elections in New
York state. The result of Tuesdays
balloting convinced the friends of the
M inneSOta chieftain that the time for
active work had come.
C5TheY are satisfied that Grover CleVe-
land will not only be the Democratic
candidate next fall, but that he will be
the next president. That gives them
hope for several reasons. Dr.. AmeS is
a personal friend of President Cleve-
land. and the doctors friends have been
assured that while the president will
of course declare himself for no man for
second place on the ticket, AmeS' can
didacy would both satisfy and please
Mr.. Cleveland. Cleveland and Ames
would be a satisfactory ticket from a
geographical point of view. Minnesota
Democrats feel that with Cleveland on
the ticket no concession to the South is
necessary, and AmeS is pronounced the
strongest man in his party in the West.
This latter claim is perhaps justified by
the statements Of leading Eastern DEM
Ocratic politicians and newspapers made
on the occasion of the banquet given to
Ames OIL his visit East just after the
Minnesota gubernatOrial campaign.
The genial doctor has certainly lost
nothing in popularity at home during the
past year. 1t has been year Of extra
ordinary political quiet in the North Star
state. There have been no elections
anywhere in the state and the politicians
have had little chance to work at their
trade. DR.. Ames, however, has been
kept prominently before the people,
thanks to his own strategy and Re
publican legislature. AmeS talked OF
contest over the gubernatOrlal count
during the first two months of the year,
and then the legislature made him the
most talked of mali in Minnesota by
series of enactmentS rObbing his mayor
atty of most of its power, and he was
not only talked of, but SympathiZed with
all over the state.
A series of accidents and occurrences
that were ''helped to happen" all grow
ing out of the remarkable personality Of
the man, have kept his name prOmi-
nent, and it is found in the Northwest
ern press to-day more than that of any
other man. His popularity at home and
i'll the state has seemingly increased.
The organized labOring classes of the
state, who comprise very large body
of men, regard him almost as their
Moses" The manner in which he was
received by the great audience which
was present at the opening eXer-
cises of the Knights of Labor gen
eral assembly in this city last
month was an evidence of that.
He was the candidate of the Minneapo-
lis Trades and Labor assembly for gov
ernor. This is the largest body of or
ganiZed wOrkingmen in the state, aside
from the Knights. His free and easy
address and his happy faculty of getting
very close to the mass of the people have
made his personal popularity greater
unQueStiOnably than that of any other
man in the Northwest He has the solid
backing of his own party in the state and
even Sachem p. H. Kelly, of st. Paul,
who has been hostile TO AmeS at times,
is now said to be in line.
Dr.. Ames said in answer to inquiries
by a World correspondent tonight:
Yes, | know that since the late elec
tons my friends have begun to push
actively my name for the vice-presiden-
tial nomination. This has been done
neither with my consent nor without it.
If am to have anything to do with this
or any other nomination it must come to
me in the Democratic fashion. Many
friends in the East have assured me that
they regarded me as the strongest DEM
ocrat in the West. However that may
be, shall certainly ask for and accept
no political honor of any kind until it
comes to me. Yes, am as certain as l
can be of anything that Grover Cleve-
land will be the next president of the
United States. The late elections set
tied that"